Bed-pan.



No. 657,279. Patented Sept. 4, I900.

R. BLANK.

BED PAN.

(Application filed Mar. 27, 1900.)

- (No Model.)

El mum dog UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROSA BLANK, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

BED-PAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 657,279, dated September 4, 1900.

I Application filed March 27,1900. Serial No. 10,37. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROSA BLANK,a citizen of the Empire of Austria-Hungary, residing at Vienna,in the Province of Lower Austria and Empire of Austria-Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bed-Pans; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The bed-pans used till now owe to their form the disadvantage that they are very uncomfortable to manage for the person using them, that they irritate by their sharp side borders, and that, furthermore, they easily cause the person using them to get wet or some of the contents to get spilled.

The object of the present invention is to produce a bed-pan which does not possess the above-named disadvantages.

Figure 1 represents the bed-pan seen from above, while Fig. 2 is a side view, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal central section, of the device.

The egg-shaped upper brim '1', which toward the back ascends gradually, is as perfectly as possible adapted to the form of the body. The upper brim at the front or narrow end is enlarged and rounded and forms at the back part a wide flat overllanging enlargement o, conforming to the back side of the person using the pan.

In order to make the pan as low as possible, it has, as shown in Fig. 2, at the back part a hollow projection or rounding-out I), closed at the top, which enlarges the inner space and prevents the person using the pan from getting wet and the liquid from being spilled in the bed. This hollow projection b is at the bottom of the rear end of the pan and is overhung by the flat upper rear part '1 of the brim.

In order to empty the bed-pan rapidly before it gets full, there is at the side or at the front part of the pan an opening 0, by which the liquid may be let out in the usual mannor by means of a leather bag or a tube 8.

1. A bed-pan having an egg-shaped seat, the front or narrow end of which is provided with an enlarged and rounded overhanging brim, r, to support the front of the body, said brim diminishing in thickness and round ness toward the rear or wider end of the bed-pan, where it is flattened out at v to support the rear of the body, substantially as set forth.

2. A bed-pan having a hollow projection or enlargement at the base of its rear endand having the upper brim of said rear end flattened and widened out and gradually ascending to overhang said projection and form a support for the body, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROSA BLANK.

WVitnesses:

MAX WINKELMANN, ALvEs'ro S. Hoeun. 

